I understand the locomotive is owned by the Association of American Railroads who runs the Transportation Technology Center under long term lease from the federal government. (FRA has some staff there but most employees work for AAR's TTCI subsidiary) You can read more about the facility including the many different test track for different purposes such as high speed rail, accelerated wear testing, etc.http://www.aar.com/services.php
Note that the locomotive's plow is notched so that it can operate over one of the transit tracks equipped with third rail.
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At first I thought this was a Bicentennial until I saw the date, in which case, the government has nice taste in paint jobs!
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Fabulous Max...thanks for sharing.
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I line with David's comment, this scheme is very similar to the Western Pacific's BiCentennial GP40-2 design. I visited this facility in 1982, and they had a U30C (which Atlas has modeled in HO gauge,) and several Paducah-rebuilt Geeps, plus locomotives borrowed from participating railroads. I shot the U-boat pulling two Amfleet cars, each with a different experimental truck design. I also was fortunate enough to have flown over the site on a Jet Blue flight to California in 2008, and from the air it looks like a huge, and very well done, model railroad!
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The U30C now sits at the Depot in Pueblo.
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